One Hundred Years of Solitude

determination to drown him
in the bathroom cistern. She
locked him up in Colonel
Aureliano Buendías old
workshop. She succeeded in
convincing Santa Sofía de la
Piedad that she had found
him floating in a basket.
Úrsula would die without
ever knowing his origin.
Little Amaranta Úrsula, who
went into the workshop once
when Fernanda was feeding
the child, also believed the